Leppotone

i got that King Tammy tape, doesn't it have the leppo logo on it? Explain the proto-leppo moniker, please.

LT002/UT0851 7"
Jabberwock: Forward Sending/Off The Line

this single that I got on Friday actually had the Sinatras "Action Party" sleeve on the outside of it, I opened it up, and got Jabberwocked!

sorry about that, man.  It was a very brief and inexplicable affiliation!

By the way, I think Jake's proto-leppo tag refers to items that pre-date the formation of Leppotonia by people and groups that would become Leppotonians.  In one form or another.

got the Jabberwok single

got two Sinatras singles

got the Twister single

got the leppotone comp CD

got the two F&M records

I'm sorry, but I gotta do it.

 In re King Tammy - On Forbe's Stinking Eggs, Travellin' Butcher, My Town, Only Babies Cry, the spelling should be Forbis'. I'm looking at the CD cover right now, seriously.

shit, it's in the trunk of my car with a comforter keeping it safe.

yeah, that jabberwock 7" has that catalog # on it and the other #, which is mysterious! 

Jake

You amaze me with your knowledge.  Did you own all those masterpieces?  You could be the Bill Wyman of Leppotone (didn't Wyman keep all the Stones shwag)?

I'd like to expand this to a discography of everything released involving any member of Leppoland.

Here's a few more Sinatras (and related) items.

The Sinatras first release was a DIY cassette compilation called "Tater Tots, AGAIN? on "Babs" records (Babs 001, I think?)

We had a few songs on a cassette called "Bill Bored Vandals" which was put together by Smelly Mustapha (aka Bill Bored, aka Jeff Griffin, aka a guy I went to High School with…) of Depression Records. I don't remember if it was a Depression Records release. Scott has a copy, he'd know.

Scott was on the very first Depression Records release, drumming for Toxic Attitude on "Stupid Teenage Music." ( DR 01) Released in 1985. TA featured not only future Sinatra/Pallbearer/Goldstar/New Real Person Scott, but also Matt Sage, future frontman for hardcore superstars Boom and the Legion of Doom! (I think that if more people knew about this record, it would be worth a bunch of money, what with the Legion of Doom's hardcore scene merging with world famous garage rockers F&M.)

The Sinatras song "When It's Over" was on Celluloid/Moving Target's "It Came From Jay's Garage" (1988 LP and Cassette, MT 019)

The Sinatras covered Henry Gross' song, Shannon, on Pravda's "20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions! (Pravda 6338, Feb of 1994)

The Sinatras song "Action Party" appeared on the 1996 CD only "Sasquatch: A Miranda Records Sampler"

What else is out there? Lot's more F&M stuff for sure. Anybody keep tabs on The Scary Tweezers?

Good completist works!  Did "THE CITY" ever record? 

There was also the Goldstar Live on WIDR CD, but that actually came out on Scratch-n-Sniff (hi pat!), as did some other King Tammy-related stuff like Fatty 2 x 4 and ….wasn't there a Loop-D-Loop recording at some point?  Brain fuzzy.

By the way Tree, are you now a larch?  Lovely new avatar!

Mons, I had/have everything but the Scary Tweezers and the Kabalas cds.  I recently got rid of all my vinyl (with the condition that I can take it all back within three years), so I don't have easy access to that stuff.  But the tapes are in a box in storage in my basement, and the cds are handy.

Tim, I'm pretty sure the Fill 'er Up tape contains the same versions of the songs that are on the Leppotone Electrical Recordings cd, plus "Quetzacoatl."

Jake, in collectors circles we refer to you as a Quitter. Or, worse, Divorced.

I'm not a religious man but let's all pray for your iPod's hardrive to never fail or for it to get stolen or sat upon.

I know, I know. It's been almost a year, and it still hurts, but I miss it less and less everyday.  I visited it a couple months ago, and its current owner is giving it much more attention and love than I could…

Your note reminds me: time to make a backup…

i've got a few hundred gigs of .wav files that I ripped from my vinyl or mp3's that I've downloaded hanging out on my various drives.  I guess that would only be about 50 dvd's to back it up, fuck!

just the other day I was looking for my Motorhead hits 2xlp and realized that I had just sold it the past weekend.  Hell, now I have to pull out whole lp's to get to the songs I want.

ah Jake, in your blog you mentioned buying mass quantities of Alpert lp's, that's the lp I see the most of around the thrift stores.  That and this  Tennessee Ernie Ford lp, goddamn that one to fucking hades.  When a Little Marcy lp is dug up I rejoice.

Jake, you should really convert those cassettes to mp3s before time and decay renders them unlistenable.

Or give them to me and I'll do it. :) 

The Tripplemint CD was accidentaly release with the same part number as the last ST cd

LTCD-004 Triplemint Garbanzo Beam

cowmen

Gnome Parade

Final Find

Close you Eyes

Hide Away

One Foot on the Earth, One Hand in the Sky

just those six songs. We put that out in 1997 just before we broke up. It was an enhanced CD! and has lots of cool stuff. Can you believe the Geocitys site is still partioaly up after 9 years of inactivity!!!

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/4594/index.htm

Mark, I added the Triplemint cd.

Oh yeah, there was a King Tammy LP released, too.  What was the serial number on that?  I know it has "Superfriends" on it.  Sab, can you look?  It's between Carole King and the Kinks, I think…

But fuck me ripping cassettes!  These bastards need to burn CDRs from the original sources/masters!  Mons made me a fine 3-CD comp of Port Wine Lads stuff.  And Mark made me a fantastic Dazzleheads CD, too.

I should rip King Tammy's "Movin On Up" though.  That's badass.

Okay, I was wrong, we weren't on Bill Bored Vandals.

We were on "My Scene Rules," which was another Depression/Smelly cassette only thing. I think. I'm gonna write to Smelly and find out for sure if that's the one.  Maybe you're asshole ain't the first thing that goes after all.

karl, it's filed under J in my singles boxes safely awaiting your orders.

i need help ripping tapes because my normal method of ripping lp's: turntable -> receiver -> usb amp -> hardrive  doesn't seem to work for me.  and my $300 (back in the day) Pioneer dualey has a bad deck and it seems to be fucking up my speeds.  booooo! 

don't forget these gems!

LTC-019/LTC-020
John K: Talks About Homelessness (Vol. 1-2)
A private series of lectures given around '93-'94, on 60 min. Realistic cassettes. 

LTC-022
Mr. Slimons: "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)"
another small run of 60 min. Realistic cassettes (maybe only ten were made?), wherein Mr. Slimons gets loaded and sings Leo Sayer songs into the porcelain microphone.

So hey, why were there two LT-002s?

Anybody got the tracklisting for the Goldstar Live on WIDR CDR (SNSE 019)? 

 How about The Sinatras Tater Tots, AGAIN? (Babs 001)?

Goldstar—Live on WIDR (highly recommended!  Contact Scratch and Sniff!)

1.  California Has More Sundays Than Michigan

2.  Suffocating

3.  Negative Touching

4.  Dancing Verboten

5.  Circus Boy

6.  Kingdom of the Ants

7.  5-H Fair

bonus studio tracks:

8.  5-H Fair

9.  Kingdom of the Ants

i need help ripping tapes because my normal method of ripping lp's: turntable -> receiver -> usb amp -> hardrive  doesn't seem to work for me.  and my $300 (back in the day) Pioneer dualey has a bad deck and it seems to be fucking up my speeds.  booooo!